Fatima-K'naan

[ti:Fatima] [ar:K'naan] [al:Troubadour] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Fatima - K'naan [00:10.56]Picture the morning taste and devour [00:12.81]We rise early pace up the hour [00:15.33]Streets is bustling hustling their heart out [00:18.05]You can't have the sweet with no sour [00:20.29]Spices herbs the sweet scent of flower [00:22.85]She came out precisely the hour [00:25.32]Clouds disappear the sun shows the power [00:27.91]No chance of a probable shower [00:30.49]I fell in love with my neighbors daughter [00:32.98]I wanted to protect and support her [00:35.40]Never mind I'm just 12 and a quarter [00:37.99]I had dreams beyond our border [00:40.33]Is it true when they say all you need is just love [00:44.37]Is it true [00:45.67]What about those who have loved [00:48.17]Only to find that it's taken away [00:50.50]And why do they say that the children have rights to be free [00:54.42]To be free [00:55.68]What about those who I've known [00:57.84]Whose memory still lives inside of me [01:00.58]Fatima [01:01.84]What did the young man say [01:04.29]Before he stole you away [01:06.75]On that fateful day Fatima [01:10.52]Fatima [01:12.03]Did he know your name [01:14.29]Or the plans we made [01:16.51]To go to New York city Fatima [01:20.51]And after school we studied the lessons [01:23.22]I ask god to slow down the seconds [01:25.66]He does the opposite that's what I'm guessing [01:28.18]I better chill and count my own blessings [01:30.68]Fatima Fatima what is the matter [01:33.08]How come you ain't come up the ladder [01:35.61]So we can be like there's no tomorrow [01:38.04]Damn you gonna make me wait until tomorrow [01:40.63]She spoke Arabic and swahili [01:43.08]She'd say Upendo until Swahili [01:45.69]You so bright you shine like my TV [01:48.12]Then one day she never came to meet me [01:50.77]Is it true when they say all you need is just love [01:54.70]Is it true [01:55.89]What about those who have loved [01:58.42]Only to find that it's taken away [02:00.54]And why do they say that the children have rights to be free [02:04.60]To be free [02:05.96]What about those who I've known [02:08.21]Whose memory still lives inside of me [02:10.69]Fatima [02:12.13]What did the young man say [02:14.51]Before he stole you away [02:16.98]On that fateful day Fatima [02:20.74]Fatima [02:22.26]Did he know your name [02:24.56]Or the plans we made [02:27.01]To go to New York city Fatima [02:30.77]Fatima [02:32.12]What did the young man say [02:34.51]Before he stole you away [02:36.60]On that fateful day Fatima [02:40.81]Fatima [02:42.29]Did he know your name [02:44.60]Or the plans we made [02:47.08]To go to New York city Fatima [02:50.87]If beauty was in the eyes of beholder [02:53.40]How come everyone hushed when she walked by [02:56.06]How come girls would look just to scold her [02:58.58]How come the angel wanted to hold her [03:00.87]Fatima Fatima I'm in America [03:03.45]I make rhymes and I make them delicate [03:06.05]You would have liked the parks in connecticut [03:08.38]You would have said I'm working too hard again [03:11.19]Damn you shooter damn you the building [03:13.48]Whose walls hid the blood she was spilling [03:15.96]Damn you country so good at killing [03:18.39]Damn you feeling for persevering [03:21.13]Is it true when they say all you need is just love [03:24.89]Is it true [03:26.19]What about those who have loved [03:28.71]Only to find that it's taken away [03:30.80]And why do they say that the children have rights to be free [03:34.85]To be free [03:36.13]What about those who I've known [03:38.32]Whose memory still lives inside of me [03:40.97]Fatima [03:42.26]What did the gun man say [03:44.71]Before he took you away on that fateful day [03:49.07]Fatima [03:51.00]Fatima [03:52.33]Did he know your name or the plans we made [03:57.26]To go to New York city [03:59.17]Fatima [04:01.06]Fatima [04:02.42]What did the gun man say [04:04.89]Before he took you away on that fateful day [04:09.18]Fatima [04:11.09]Fatima [04:12.78]Did he know your name or the plans we made [04:17.42]To go to New York city [04:19.37]Fatima [04:21.37]Fatima [04:22.36]Now I just want to make it clear I don't want you to [04:27.24]Shed a tear [04:29.81]Because this here is a celebration we're not mourning we're celebrating [04:41.33]Fatima [04:42.37]Yeah [04:44.75]So baby don't cry please don't let the tears fall [04:53.08]So don't cry